Wittgenstein's Ladder
Subtitle: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: March 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780226660608
Subjects: Philosophy of language; Rhetoric; Theory Of Literature; Wittgenstein, Ludwig; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Philosophy; European - German; Literary Criticism & Collections / German; Poetry / General; General
First sentence: In the autumn of 1939, Ludwig Wittgenstein and his young Cambridge student and friend Norman Malcolm were walking along the river when they saw a newspaper vendor's sign announcing that the Germans had accused the British government of instigating a recent attempt to assassinate Hitler.